Chap. 284.—An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years
ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of
February, 1910.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the public
taxes and arrears of taxes due prior to the first day of March, in the
years nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and ten, respec-
tively, as well as the revenue derived from all other sources and all
money not otherwise appropriated which shall come into the treasury
prior to the first day of March, nineteen hundred and nine, and the first
day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, respectively, shall establish a
general fund, and be, and the same is, hereby appropriated for the fiscal
years to close on the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred
and nine, and the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and
ten, respectively, in the following manner and for the following uses,
to-wit :

For the fiscal year ending on the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen
hundred and nine.

Governor, salary of five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of two thousand dollars.

Governor’s assistant secretary, who shall be the governor’s stenog-
rapher, salary of, not exceeding twelve hundred dollars.

Labor at the executive mansion, twelve hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, salary of, four thousand dollars.
Attorney-general, assistant to, salary of, twenty-five hundred dollars:
stenographer, salary of, twelve hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of mileage,
not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, for mileage at ten cents per mile for every mile of
necessary travel on business of the State, a sum sufficient therefor, and
for furnishing office, four hundred dollars.

To defray the costs and expenses of defending suits in the United
States courts against the State corporation commission, or the members
and clerk thereof, and to indemnify them against loss or damage by rea-
son of said litigation, twenty thousand dollars. As provided in act ap-
proved February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, salary of, two thousand aight hun-
dred dollars; and he shall receive ten per centum of the amount of sales
of publications from his office ; all fees of office shall be paid into treasury.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, three clerks in office, three thousand
eight hundred dollars.

To the secretary of the Commonwealth for rent of storage room for
State publications, and shelusngs a sum sufficient, not exceeding seven
hundred dollars.

For janitor and messenger, six hundred dollars.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, contingent expenses of office not ex-
ceeding six hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, fifteen thousand and fifty
dollars, which said additional sum of nine hundred dollars shall be
equally distributed among the said clerks.

Auditor of public accounts, receiving and forwarding clerk and mes-
senger, one thousand four hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars.

Auditor (second), salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars, and
commissions allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office; first clerk, eighteen hundred dol-
lars; second clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at
one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office not exceeding three
hundred dollars, and the further sum of two hundred and fifty dollars
for adding machine.

Treasurer, salary of, two thousand dollars, and commissions allowed
by law.

” State treasurer’s chief clerk, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer, clerks in office which shall include the compensation of the
funding clerk, under funding acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two
and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven thousand dollars.

Treasurer, contingent expenses of office not exceeding three hundred
and fifty dollars, and the further sum of one thousand dollars for addi-
tional file cases.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk to, twelve hundred
dollars.
Register of land office and superintendent of public buildings, salary
of, twenty-one hundred dollars, which shall be his compensation for all
services, and all the fees received by him shall be paid into the treasury
of the State.

Register of the land office, contingent expenses of office, one thousand
five hundred dollars, which shall be expended by said register with due
regard to the walks, trees, grass and shrubbery of the capitol square and
the protection and the feeding of the squirrels, and two thousand dollars
or so much thereof as may be necessary for repairs and keeping in order
publie buildings and the Lee monument grounds, and such additional
sum as may be necessary for the due and proper insurance of the prop-
erty under his charge; an itemized annual report of all his expenditures
shall be made by said register to the governor.

Penitentiary : ,

Salary of superintendent of penitentiary, two thousand, two hundred
and fifty dollars. .

Salary of surgeon at penitentiary, one thousand, two hundred dollars.

Salary of assistant superintendent at penitentiary, one thousand, two
hundred dollars.

Salaries of four keepers at penitentiary, each nine hundred dollars,
three thousand, six hundred dollars. _

Salaries of clerks at penitentiary, three thousand dollars.

Salary of matron at penitentiary, six hundred dollars.

Salaries of five directors of the penitentiary, at the rate of three
dollars for every day’s attendance on the board; provided, that no di-
rector shall receive more than two hundred dollars per annum.

Salaries of interior and exterior guards at the penitentiary, not to
exceed fifty-one in number (not to be paid when absent on furlough for
more than ten days in any year, whether sick or otherwise, substitute
guards shall receive the same pay, when employed as the regularly em-
ployed guards), each seven hundred and eighty dollars, thirty-nine thou-
sand seven hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary. Six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary for machinery, electric chair, electric appliances, for fitting up
death chamber and cells for executing criminals under sentence of death,
which shall include one thousand dollars provided for by law.

For transportation of criminals to and from the penitentiary, six
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State farm.—Such guards as may be necessary at the State farm, not
exceeding twenty-two, to be appointed by the superintendent thereof,
their compensation to be, each thirty dollars per month and their board,
each guard to be entitled to fifteen days vacation annually without de-
duction of pay, seven thousand, nine hundred and twenty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Surgeon at State farm, six hundred dollars and in addition thereto
board for himself and horse.

Superintendent at State farm, one thousand dollars and in addition
thereto board for himself and family.

Penitentiary—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
guards, and incidental expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, and the further sum of ten thousand
dollars for a new armory to be expended under the direction of the
penitentiary board.

State farm.—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
guards and incidental expenses, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

State corporation commission.—Salaries of three commissioners, each
the sum of four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars. And the
further sum of two hundred dollars to the chairman of said commission
for his services as chairman thereof.

Salary of the clerk of the commission, two thousand five hundred
dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistical
clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assessment clerk, one thou-
sand five hundred dollars; two clerks each one thousand two hundred
dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand two
hundred dollars; one stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars;
one stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six
hundred dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the commission, eight thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and for additional
files, two thousand dollars.

Commissioner of agriculture and immigration, the sum of two thou-
sand, eight hundred dollars, which shall be in full of his services, but
all fees of office and all fees accruing shall be paid into the treasury; to
the Virginia State horticultural society one thousand dollars, for the
purpose now provided by law as provided in an act entitled an act mak-
ing an appropriation for the benefit of the Virginia State horticultural
society approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, which
with all other expenses of the board of agriculture shall be paid from
the fees and taxes collected from fertilizers, if sufficient for that pur-
pose; if not, they shall be paid pro rata from said funds but in no event
shall any part of such salaries or expenses be paid out the public treas-
ury, if in excess of such fees and taxes collected on fertilizers; should
there be any excess from said taxes and fees on fertilizers, the same shall
be appropriated as provided by law. Seven thousand five hundred dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the law
creating a dairy and food commissioner. To the department of agri-
culture and immigration for the promotion of home seekers and land
settlers and investors in Virginia, and for advertising the resources of
this State in other States and countries, five thousand dollars, and the
further sum of fifteen hundred dollars to the department of agriculture
for the special development of horticulture.

Superintendent of public instruction, the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars, and his necessary travelling expenses while engaged in the
duties of his office (to be approved by the board of education, not to
oxeeed in the aggregate five hundred dollars).

Commissioner of labor, salary of, two thousand dollars, and for the
purposes of his office, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

Adjutant-general, salary of, two thousand four hundred dollars, which
shall include the sum now allowed by law.

State librarian, salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Assistant State librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Reference librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Stenographer in State library, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and
for salary of cataloguer, nine hundred dollars, and to pay assistant
janitor three hundred dollars.

Salaries of such other assistants and expenses necessary for publishing
Journal of the House of Burgesses and additional book stacks and for
travelling libraries the sum of six thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, and one thousand dollars for book stacks.

Doorkeeper, who shall also act as janitor to the library, seven hundred
and eighty dollars.

Two conductors at the library building for the elevator, one for day
duty and one for night duty, six hundred and sixty dollars each.

One policeman at the library building, six hundred and sixty dollars.

oe night watchman at the library building, seven hundred and eighty
dollars. ,

One night watchman for court of appeals, seven hundred and eighty
dollars.

Two janitors of library offices in library building, six hundred and
sixty dollars each.

Three engineers for the electric light and power plant, at ten hundred
and eighty dollars, each; said engineers shall supervise and keep in order
the engines and boilers and machinery under their charge; amounting
to three thousand, two hundred and forty dollars.

Three firemen for the electric light and power plant, at six hundred
and sixty dollars each, who while on duty, shall be under the control
and supervision of the engineer in charge; one thousand, nine hundred
and eighty dollars.

Six capitol policemen, the sum of nine hundred dollars each; five
thousand four hundred dollars, one of whom shall act as clerk to reg-
ister of land office.

Three janitors at the capitol building, the sum of six hundred and
sixty dollars each; one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

Two conductors of the elevator at the capitol, one for day duty and
one for night duty, who shall also act as guard, nine hundred dollars
each ; one thousand eight hundred dollars.

One janitor and messenger for the offices of the governor, seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars. :

Telephones in public buildings, five hundred and sixty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioner of State hospitals, salary of, two thousand dollars.

For necessary travelling expenses of commissioner while engaged in
the duties of his office not to exceed five hundred dollars, the same to
be paid on the approval of the general board for the State hospitals.
No part of the annual appropriation for any hospital shall be used for
any expenses of the commissioner.

General assembly.—To pay deficit in appropriation for fiscal year
ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, for pay
of salaries of members, officers, clerks, assistant clerks, and employees,
a sum sufficient.
To pay salaries of members, officers, clerks, pages, employees an
incidental expenses, and also for mileage of members, officers and em
ployees, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces
sary. :

To pay mileage of the officers, clerks and members of general assem
bly who shall be in actual attendance, the sum of seven thousand dollar
or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of re-assemblin;
on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and eight, and here
tofore agreed upon by the general assembly.

Clerk of the house of delegates, five dollars per day for every day th
said clerk does not receive ten dollars per day, a sum sufficient.

Document clerk and librarian of the senate, salary of three dollar
per day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars.

Judiciary Department.

Supreme court of appeals.—Salary of the president of the court, fou
thousand, seven hundred dollars.

Salaries of four associate judges at four thousand, five hundred dol
lars each, eighteen thousand dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Staunton, three hundred and twent
dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Wytheville, three hundred and twent
dollars.

Salary of the reporter of the court, one thousand five hundre
dollars.

ae of the stenographer of the court, one thousand four hundre
dollars.

Circuit court.—Salaries of twenty-eight judges, each, two thousan
five hundred a year, seventy thousand dollars and for such other circui
judges as may he elected, so much as may be necessary to pay two thou
sand five hundred dollars each, per annum.

Salary of the judge of the tenth judicial circuit, three thousand fiv
hundred dollars a year.

City courts.—Salaries of judges of chancery court, law and equit
court and hustings court of fhe city of Richmond, and the law an
chancery court and the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, eac
three thousand five hundred dollars, seventeen thousand five hundre
dollars.

Salaries of the respective judges of the corporation courts of the citic
of Petersburg, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Newport News, Danville, Ale»
andria, and Staunton, twenty-five hundred dollars each.

Salary of the judge of the corporation court of the cities of Port:
mouth and Manchester, each, two thousand dollars. Mileage of judge
five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Contingent expenses of courts, thirty thousand dollars or so muc
thereof as may be necessary. -

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof 4
may be necessary.
Tce, fuel and lights in capitol, library building, executive mansi
and power plant, four thousand dollars or so much thereof as may
necessary.

Criminal charges including expenses of juries, witnesses and so fort
the prison association and the negro reformatory three hundred a1
twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessa1
but not more than five hundred dollars each per year shall be paid
the jail physician of Richmond and Norfolk.

Public printing, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so mu
thereof as may be necessary.

Printing records of criminal cases in supreme court of appeals, sev
hundred and fifty dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding and so forth, three tho
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For new index for court of appeals library, five hundred dollars,
so much thereof as may be necessary.

Oysters :

Salaries and expenses of board of fisheries, the sum of forty-fi
thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary; which shi
include salaries of chairman and secretary as provided by law creati
commission of fisheries, to compensate clerks of court for services pe
formed by them under an act entitled an act to have plats of oyst
planting grounds endorsed, abandoned under certain conditions, and
authorize the renting of such grounds, approved March fourteenth, nir
teen hundred and four; and to the unsalaried members of the board
fisheries of Virginia, the sum of four hundred dollars each for extt
ordinary services performed by them, and also for the protection «
maintenance of steamers and vessels, to be paid out of the oyster te
and in no event is any portion of it to be paid otherwise than out
said oyster tax, and the further sum of ten thousand dollars, for t
purchase of boats.

To pay commissions to commissioners of revenue, examiners of recor‘
postage and express charges on land and property books and so fort
one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessa1

To pay pensions, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars,
so much thereof as may be necessary.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, eig
thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State hospitals for insane:

Eastern—For support, one hundred thousand dollars.

For additional accommodations, and repairs, ten thousand dolla
and the further sum of seventeen hundred dollars for paying the nec
sary legal expenses of the board of visitors in proceedings to remo
Superintendent Foster.

Western—For support, one hundred and nineteen thousand dolla:

For additional accommodations and repairs, ten thousand dollars.

Southwestern—For support, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For additional accommodations, and repairs twelve thousand dolla

Central—For support, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dolla:

For additional accommodation, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of farm at Western State hospital, fifteen thousand
dollars, not more than seven thousand, five hundred dollars to become
available during the fiscal year ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen
hundred and nine.

Prison association of Virginia, for improvements, twelve thousand
five hundred dollars, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred
dollars for school house, also the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the
pay of teachers.

Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, three thousand dollars
for improvements.

School for colored deaf and blind, ten thousand dollars, for farm and
buildings.

Officers and employees of State hospitals for the insane, to be paid out
of the amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as follows:

Superintendent of the Western State hospital, two thousand two hun-
dred and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of the Central State hospital, three thousand five
hundred dollars.

Superintendent of the Eastern State hospital, two thousand dollars.

Superintendent of the Southwestern State hospital, two thousand
dollars.

And where they occupy buildings on the ground of, or buildings be-
longing to the respective institutions, they shall pay therefor such rental
as may be fixed by the board of the respective institutions.

First and second assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each
a salary not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Third assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each, a salary
not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum.

Stewards of the Western and Central State hospitals shall receive a
salary not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum.

. Stewards of the Eastern and Southwestern State hospitals shall each
receive a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum.

The clerk of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceeding seven
hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

Each clerk shall perform the duties of secretary to the board of the
hospital of which he is a clerk.

The engineer of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceeding
seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers (except superintendents) of the hospitals shall receive
in addition to the salaries specified above their board and lodging at
their respective hospitals, but shall not receive any additional per-
quisites or emoluments.

Institutions of learning:

Medical college of Virginia, at Richmond, for support, five thousand
dollars.

- State female normal school, for support, fifty thousand dollars, and
the further sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars to be expended for
improvements.

For the establishment of State normal and industrial schools for
women, at Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, the sum of seventy-five
thousand dollars, of which the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall
be for the school at Fredericksburg and shall be available on and after
February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and nine, but not before.

The said schools shall be under the supervision, management and
government of the boards of trustees, which shall consist of ten members
each, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the senate, to hold office for the term of four years; provided, that
at the first appointment five of the members of each board shall be ap-
pointed for a term of two years, and five for a term of four years. The
superintendent of public instruction shall be ex-officio member of the
said boards of trustees, and any vacancy in said boards that shall be
caused by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled by the gover-
nor with the approval of the senate.

Second. The said trustees shall be bodies corporate under the name and
style of State normal and industrial school for women at Harrisonburg
and State normal and industrial school for women at Fredericksburg,
respectively, with the right as such to plead and be impleaded in the
courts, to receive all subscriptions, gifts and donations, real or personal,
from any source whatever, the same by them to be held, invested, dis-
tributed, or expended for the best use and benefit of the said schools,
and to exercise such other powers, and do such other acts which are
necessary and proper to accomplish the end for which said schools are
created. Said trustees shall from time to time make all needful rules
and regulations for the government and management for said schools,
fix the number and compensation of teachers and employees of said
schools, and of said boards, and prescribe the preliminary examinations
and conditions upon which students shall be received therein. Each of
the said boards of trustees may appoint an executive committee, of which
the superintendent of public instruction shall be a member, for the care,
management and government of each of said schools, under the rules
and regulations prescribed as aforesaid.

Third. The said trustees shall annually make and file with the said
board of education a full report of their proceedings under this act, to-
gether with the report of the progress and condition of said schools. The
trustees shall establish one of said schools within or near the corporate
limits of Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham, Virginia, on a
suitable site to be selected by said trustees, and one of said schools within
or near the corporate limits of the city of Fredericksburg, in the county
of Spottsylvania or Stafford on a suitable site to be selected by said
trustees.

Fourth. Each county and city in the State shall be entitled to one
pupil in each of said schools, who shall be nominated by the division
superintendent of schools, and if any vacancy occur shall be filled by a
like nomination, and each county and city in the State shall be entitled
to one additional pupil in each school for each additional representative
in the house of delegates above one, to be nominated in a similar man-
ner, provided that the boards of trustees may increase the number of
pupils, if they deem it expedient, said pupils to be selected as above. The
said pupils so appointed shall be exempt from the charge of tuition.
The boards of trustees shall prescribe rules for the selection of said
pupils, their examination, and shall require of each pupil selected satis-
factory evidence of an intention to teach in the public schools of this
State for at least four years after leaving the said normal schools.

Fifth. For the purpose of the said schools there shall be paid out of

the public treasury, from time to time, such sums as shall be appropriated
to pay incidental expenses, the salaries of officers and teachers and to
maintain the efficiency of the said schools; provided, that the Common-
wealth shall not in any instance be responsible for any debt contracted
or expenditure made by said institutions in excess of the appropriation
made.
Sixth. The establishment of said school near or within the corporate
limits of- the town of Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham, is
conditioned upon an appropriation of not less than fifteen thousand
dollars cash to be paid by the town of Harrisonburg and the county of
Rockingham, upon the establishment of said school; and the guaran-
teeing of a suitable site connected with the water, light and sewer systems
of said town, of not less than thirty acres of land for said institution
at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars, said site and plans for said
buildings to be submitted to and approved by the board of education,
and the establishment of said school near or within the corporate limits
of the city of Fredericksburg in the county of Spottsylvania, or Stafford,
is conditional upon an appropriation of not less than twenty thousand
dollars cash to be paid by the city of Fredericksburg and the county of
Spottsylvania or Stafford upon the establishment of said school, and the
site for said school and plans for buildings shall be submitted to, in-
spected and approved by the board of education.

Seventh. The superintendent of public instruction shall render to
the second auditor an annual account of the expenditures for said in-
stitutions.

University of Virginia, for support, eighty thousand dollars, which
shall include the ten thousand dollars provided for by an act approved
January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (chapter one
hundred and thirty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-
six), upon condition that the university of Virginia shall give instruc-
tion to properly prepared white students from Virginia without charge
for tuition or university fee in the academic department of more than
ten dollars, which ten dollars shall cover all the items covered by the
former university fee of forty dollars, but this shall not interfere with
the requirement of the ten dollar contingent deposit.

For building, thirty-three thousand dollars.

Virginia military institute, for support, forty thousand dollars, which
shall include the expenses of the board of visitors, except the adjutant-
general and the superintendent of public instruction, whose expenses
shall be paid as provided by law.

For building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Virginia school for the deaf and blind, for support, fifty thousand
dollars, and the further sum of one thousand, five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, for the treatment of such persons as
the superintendent may contract for at the Richmond eye infirmary.

For repairs and new building, twenty thousand dollars.

Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute
at Blacksburg, Virginia, sixty-six thousand, seven hundred and fifty
dollars, which shall include seven hundred and fifty dollars paid under
chapter four hundred and twenty-five, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-
five and six; six thousand dollars paid under chapter seven hundred
and eighty-six, acts eighteen hundred ninety-nine and nineteen hundred,
and the further sum of thirty-four thousand dollars to pay deficit; and
the further sum of five thousand dollars for the special purpose of con-
ducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations with tobacco
and other crops grown in rotation or in connection with tobacco. Six-
teen thousand dollars for equipment, which shall include the six thousand
dollars provided by law for the establishment of the school of mines.

Virginia normal and industrial institute, for support, twenty thou-
sand dollars, and the further sum of fourteen thousand dollars for the
purchase of farm, repairs to buildings, and drainage.

William and Mary college, for support, forty thousand dollars, and
the further sum of ten thousand dollars for improvements.

The State female normal school, the Virginia agricultural and me-
chanical college and polytechnic institute, the Virginia military institute,
the university of Virginia, and William and Mary college, may each
draw from the treasury of the State, from funds not otherwise appro-
priated, in addition to the sum appropriated for the support of each of
these institutions annually, a sum not to exceed one per cent. of such
year’s appropriation to said institution for support, which sum shall
be used for the establishment of a State students’ loan fund at each of
the said institutions, respectively, and this said sum may be so drawn
annually by each of said institutions for five years after the passage
of this act.

2. Each of the said institutions shall, upon such terms and according
to such rules as may be prescribed by their respective boards of trustees
or visitors, make loans from the said State students’ loan fund to needy
and deserving students of talent and character from Virginia in the
academic departments at said institution for the purpose of aiding those
to obtain an education at such institution who might not be able other-
wise to do so.

3. The said loans shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) in
any one session to the same student and shall be made to said students
upon such terms as to time and security as the authorities of the re-
spective institutions shall determine in each case: provided, that the rate
of interest charged students on such loans shall be four per centum per
annum.

4. The said State students’ loan funds shall be preserved from deple-
tion by the said institutions, and together with the repayments and
accretions thereto, shall be held and used for the purposes specified in
this act and no other, and each of the said institutions shall annually,
not later than July first in each year thereafter, file in the office of the
State superintendent of public instruction a statement in detail showing
for the year past, the amount received by said fund, the loans made, to
whom made and upon what terms, the amount of the corpus of said fund,
the amounts repaid to said fund and from whom, and any other informa-
tion deemed pertinent by the institution so reporting or which may have
been requested by the State superintendent of public instruction.
Public schools.—Such sum as will be sufficient to pay the amount re-
quired by section fifteen hundred and seven, Code of Virginia, to be
applied to the support of the public free schools and the further sum of
four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, this latter sum to be
turned over to the State board of education, and by that board appor-
tioned as prescribed by the Constitution to the public free schools of the
several counties and cities of the Commonwealth, except, however, fifteen
thousand dollars thereof, which said board is authorized to expend in the
maintenance of the summer normal institutes.

For high schools to be expended as per act creating public high schools,
one hundred thousand dollars, provided that so much of the five hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars herein provided for the support of
public schools and high schools as may be necessary, not to exceed twenty
thousand dollars, shall be devoted to the establishment of departments
of agriculture, domestic economy and manual training in at least one
high school in each congressional district of the State, to be conducted
under such rules and regulations as the State board of education and
the president of the Virginia college of agriculture and polytechnic
institute may prescribe.

Confederate soldiers’ home, for annuity, thirty thousand dollars, under
act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety two, and the further
sum of seventeen thousand dollars, making a total of forty-seven thousand
dollars.

To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under the acts ap-
proved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, Febu-
ary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, January thirty-
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and January twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the amendments thereto, a suffi-
cient sum for that purpose is appropriated not exceeding eight hundred
and seventy-eight thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

Sinking fund.—For the.sinking fund, one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars as provided by the act approved February, nineteen
hundred and eight.

Cattle quarantine, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.

Crop pest commissioners, all moneys received in to the treasury from
certificates of registration for selling nursery stock, as provided in sec-
tion twelve, chapter two hundred and seven, acts nineteen hundred and
two, and nineteen hundred and three, and the sum of six thousand dol,-
lars, which shall include and be in lieu of the appropriation made in
said act to be used exclusively for the purposes of the commissioners.

To carry into effect the law creating a new State board of health,
forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

‘Commissioners to promote uniformity of legislation, expenses of,
one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Delinquent lands.—To pay expenses of sales and fees to clerks, six
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Erroneous assessments of taxes.—An amount sufficient to pay amounts
to be refunded under orders of courts.
Expenses of registration of marriages, four hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Military fund, that proportion of the receipts into the State treasury
that is provided by section three hundred and seventy-six of the Code, as
amended by an act approved February twenty-six, nineteen hundred
and eight.

Military contingent fund—To pay military forces when aiding the
civil authorities as prescribed by section three hundred and five of the
Code of Virginia, a sum sufficient therefor.

To pay for lithographing stamps and seals to be used by notaries
and clerks of courts, seventy-five dollars.

Good roads.—State highway commission.—Salary of State highway
commissioner, three thousand dollars; salary of assistant highway com-
missioner, two thousand dollars; salary of clerk of highway commissioner,
one thousand two hundred dollars; for contingent and all other expenses,
eight thousand six hundred dollars.

To pay expenses convict road force under act approved March sixth,
nineteen hundred and six, known as Lassiter-Withers act, eighty-five
thousand dollars. .

TO the State board of agriculture, to be used to aid the Virginia
State trucking association ten thousand dollars, not more than one-half
to be paid out during the fiscal year ending February twenty-eighth,
nineteen hundred and nine.

To reimburse Joseph Button, for expenses incurred in mandamus
proceedings against State corporation commission, before supreme court
of appeals, two thousand and three dollars and forty-one cents.

Addition to library building the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is, hereby
appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, for the purpose of erecting an addition to the State library
building in which to display the mineral and timber exhibit of Virginia
at Jamestown exposition, the said sum to be expended under the super-
vision of a commission consisting of the governor, who shall be ex-
officio chairman, and four commissioners to be appointed by the governor,
The said commission shall have power to erect the said building, which
shall be sufficiently large to accommodate said mineral and timber ex-
hibit and such other productions as may from time to time be collected
by the agricultural department of the State.

The first and second stories of said building to be used for the purposes
of said exhibit. The other stories of said building shall be adapted to
the use of such departments of the State government as are not at pres-
ent adequately provided for.

Of the sum hereinbefore appropriated, not more than one-half shall
be payable during the fiscal year ending March first, nineteen hundred
and nine, and the remainder during the fiscal year ending March first,
nineteen hundred and ten.

Ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the
purpose of placing the necessary granite steps on the capitol grounds
and of making the necessary repairs to the capitol building and portico,
and the further sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the painting of the senate and house chambers, the
lobbies and rotunda. The said sum to be expended under the supervisior
of the aforesaid commission, consisting of the governor, who shall be
ex-officio chairman, and of four commissioners to be appointed by the
governor as herein provided for.

To the Everett Waddey Company for twenty-five copies of Pollard’:
Code purchased for the use of the general assembly, two hundred and
fifty dollars.

The sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to pay the unexpended balance of the ten thousand dollars
appropriated by an act approved March the seventh, nineteen hundred
and six, to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in
Statuary Hall in Washington, District of Columbia, which appropriation
by the terms of said act lapses into the treasury on March fifteenth.
nineteen hundred and eight.

The sum of four hundred and seventy-five dollars is hereby appropri-
ated and the auditor of public accounts is directed to draw a warrant
on any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable tc
pay director W. W. Galt, U. S. N., for this amount. Said sum is in.
tended to reimburse W. W. Galt for money paid out by him for the
recording of a deed for certain property purchased by the United State:
government in Norfolk county, Virginia.

For the fiscal year ending on the i day of February, nine.
teen hundred and t

Governor, salary of, five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Governor’s assistant secretary, who shall be the governor’s steno-
grapher, salary of, not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars.

Labor at the executive mansion, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Attorney-general, assistant to, salary of, twenty-five hundred dollars;
stenographer, salary of, twelve hundred dollars

Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of mileage.
not exceeding four hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, for mileage at ten cents per mile for every mile o|
necessary travel on business of the State, a sum sufficient therefor.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, salary of, two thousand eight hun-
dred dollars; and he shall receive ten per centum of the amount of sales
of publications from his office; all fees of office shall be paid into treasury.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, three clerks in office, three thousand
cight hundred dollars.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, contingent expenses of office not
exceeding six hundred dollars.

To the secretary of the Commonwealth for rent of storage room fot
State publications, a sum sufficient, not exceeding five hundred dollars.
for janitor and messenger, six hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, fifteen thousand and fifty
dollars, which said additional sum of nine hundred dollars shall be equally
distributed among the said clerks.
Auditor of public accounts, receiving and forwarding clerk
senger, one thousand four hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, n
ng, one thousand dollars.

Auditor (second), salary of two thousand five hundred dc
commission allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office: first clerk, one thous
yundred dollars; second clerk, one thousand four hundred dc
slerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office, not excce:
hundred dollars.

Treasurer, salary of, two thousand dollars, and commissio1
oy law.

State treasurer’s chief clerk, salary, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer, clerks in office which shall include the compensat
funding clerk, under funding acts of eighteen hundred and |
ind eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven thousand dollars.

Treasurer, contingent expenses of office not exceeding thre
und fifty dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, two thousand

Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk to, one
two hundred dollars.

Register of land office and superintendent of public buildis
of, twenty-one hundred dollars which shall be his compensat
his services, and the fees received by him shall be paid into th
of the State.

Register of the land office, contingent expenses of office, on:
five hundred dollars, which shall be expended by said registe1
regard to the walks, trees, grass and shrubbery of the capi
and the protection and the feeding of the squirrels, and twe
dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for repairs al
in order public buildings and the Lee monument grounds,
additional sum as may be necessary for the due and proper
of the property under his charge; an itemized annual report
expenditures shall be made by said register to the governor.

Penitentiary :

Salary of superintendent of penitentiary, two thousand tw
and fifty dollars.

Salary of surgeon at penitentiary, one thousand two hundi

Salary of assistant superintendent at penitentiary, one
two hundred dollars.

Salaries of four keepers at penitentiary, each nine hundr
three thousand six hundred dollars.

Salaries of clerks at penitentiary, three thousand dollars.

Salary of matron at penitentiary, six hundred dollars.

Salaries of five directors of the penitentiary, at the rat
dollars for every day’s attendance on the board ; provided, that
shall receive more than two hundred dollars per annum.

‘Salaries of interior and exterior guards at the penitentie
exceed fifty-one in number (not to be paid when absent on ft
more than ten days in any year, whether sick or otherwise; substitute
guards shall receive the same pay, when employed as the regularly em-
ployed guards), each seven hundred and eighty dollars, thirty-nine
thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.

For transportation of criminals to and from the penitentiary six thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State farm.—Such guards as may be necessary at the State farm,
not exceeding twenty-two, to be appointed by the superintendent thereof,
their compensation to be, each thirty dollars per month and their board,
each guard to be entitled to fifteen days vacation annually without de-
duction of pay, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Surgeon at State farm, six hundred dollars and in addition thereto
board for himself and horse. :

Superintendent at State farm one thousand dollars and in addition
thereto board for himself and family.

Penitentiary.—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
guards, and incidental expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

State farm.—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
guards and incidental expenses, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

State corporation commission.—Salaries of three commissioners, each
the sum of four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars, and the further
sum of five hundred dollars to the chairman of said commission for
his services as chairman thereof.

Salary of the clerk of the commission, two thousand five hundred
dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistical
clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assessment clerk, one thou-
sand five hundred dollars; two clerks each one thousand two hundred
dollars; two thousand four hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand two
hundred dollars; two stenographers each one thousand two hundred dol-
lars; messenger, six hundred dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty
dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the commission, eight thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioner of agriculture and immigration, the sum of two thou-
sand eight hundred dollars which shall be in full for his services, but
all fees of office and all fees accruing shall be paid into the treasury; to
the Virginia State horticultural society, one thousand dollars for the
purpose now provided by law as provided in an act entitled an act mak-
ing an appropriation for the benefit of the Virginia State horticultural
society approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, which
with all other expenses of the board of agriculture shall be paid from
the fees and taxes collected from fertilizers, if sufficient for that purpose ;
if not, they shall be paid pro rata from said funds but in no event shall
any part of such salaries or expenses be paid out the public treasury, if
in excess of such fees and taxes collected on fertilizers; should there be
any excess from said taxes and fees on fertilizers, the same shall be
appropriated as provided by law. Seventy-five hundred dollars or so
much thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the law creating
a dairy and food commissioner. To the department of agriculture and
immigration, for the promotion of home seekers and land settlers and in-
vestors in Virginia, and for advertising the resources of this State in
other States and countries, five thousand dollars, and the further sum
of fifteen hundred dollars to be used for the especial development of hor-
ticulture.

Superintendent of public instruction, the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars, and his necessary travelling expenses while engaged in the duties
of his office (to be approved by the board of education, not to exceed in
the aggregate five hundred dollars in one year).

Commissioner of labor, salary of, two thousand dollars, and for the
purposes of his office, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

Adjutant-general, salary of, two thousand four hundred dollars which
shall include the sum now allowed by law.

State librarian, salary of two thousand five hundred dollars.

Assistant State librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Reference librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Stenographer in State library, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and
for salary of cataloguer, nine hundred dollars, and to pay assistant jan-
itor, three hundred dollars, and twenty-five hundred dollars for book
stacks.

Salaries of such other assistants and expenses necessary for publishing
Journal of the House of Burgesses and for travelling libraries the sum of
six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Doorkeeper who shall also act as janitor to the library, seven hundred
and eighty dollars.

Two conductors at the library building for the elevator, one for day
duty and one for night duty, six hundred and sixty dollars each.

One policeman at the library building, six hundred and sixty dollars.

One night watchman at the library building, seven hundred and eighty
dollars.

One night watchman for court or appeals, seven hundred and eighty
dollars.

Two janitors of library offices in library building, six hundred and
sixty dollars each.

Three engineers for the electric light and power plant, at ten hundred
and eighty dollars each; said engineers shall supervise and keep in
order the engines and boilers and machinery under their charge.

Three firemen for the electric light and power plant, at six hundred
and sixty dollars each, who while on duty, shall be under the control
and supervision of the engineer in charge.

Six capitol policemen, nine hundred dollars each, one of whom shall act
as clerk to register of land office.

Three janitors at the capitol building, the sum of six hundred and
sixty dollars each.

Two conductors of the elevator at the capitol, one for day duty and
one for night duty, who shall also act as guard, nine hundred dollars
each.

One janitor and messenger for the offices of the governor, seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars.
Telephones in public buildings, five hundred and sixty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioner of State hospitals, salary of, two thousand dollars.

For necessary travelling expenses of commissioner while engaged in
the duties of his office not to exceed five hundred dollars, the same to be
paid on the approval of the general board for the State hospitals. No
part of the annual appropriation for any hospital shall be used for any
expenses of the commissioner.

General assembly.—To pay salaries of members, clerks, assistant
clerks, officers, pages, employees, and incidental expenses, and also for
mileage of members, officers and employees, seventy-five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Clerk of the house of delegates, five dollars per day for every day the
said clerk does not receive ten dollars per day, a sum sufficient.

Document clerk and librarian of the Senate, salary of three dollars
per day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars.

Judiciary Department.

Supreme courts of appeals.—Salary of the president of the court, four
thousand seven hundred dollars.

Salaries of four associate judges at four thousand five hundred dollars
each, eighteen thousand dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Staunton, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Wytheville, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Salary of the reporter of the court, one thousand five hundred
dollars.

Salary of the stenographer of the court, one thousand four hundred
dollars.

Circuit courts.—Salaries of twenty-eight judges, each, two thousanc
five hundred a year, seventy thousand dollars, and for such other circuit
judges as may be elected, so much as may be necessary to pay two thou
sand five hundred dollars each, per annum.

Salary of the judge of the tenth judicial circuit, three thousand fiv
hundred dollars a year.

City courts——Salaries of judges of chancery court, law and equity
court, and hustings court of the city of Richmond, and the law anc
chancery court and the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, eacl
three thousand five hundred dollars, seventeen thousand five hundrec
dollars.

Salaries of the judges of the corporation or hustings court of th
cities of Petersburg, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Danville, Alexandria, Staunto1
and Newport News, each two thousand five hundred dollars.

Salary of the judge of the corporation courts of the cities of Ports
mouth and Manchester, two thousand dollars.

Mileage of judges, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ma
be necessary.
Contingent expenses of courts, thirty thousand dollars or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as
may be necessary.

Tce, fuel and light in capitol, library building, executive mansion
and power plant, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

Criminal charges including expenses of juries, witnesses and so forth,
the prison association and the negro reformatory, three hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
but not more than five hundred dollars each per year shall be paid to the
jail physician of Richmond and Norfolk.

Public printing, twenty-eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary.

Printing records of criminal cases in supreme court of appeals, seven
hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding and so forth, three thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Oysters.—Salaries and expenses of board of fisheries, the sum of
forty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, which
shall include salaries of chairman and secretary as provided by law
creating a commission of fisheries, to compensate clerks of court for
services performed by them under an act entitled an act to have plats
of oyster planting grounds endorsed, abandoned under certain conditions,
-and to authorize the renting of such grounds, approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and four; and also for the protection of, maintenance
of steamers and vessels, to be paid out of the oyster tax, and in no event
is any portion of it to be paid otherwise than out of said oyster tax, and
the further sum of ten thousand dollars, for the purchase of boats.

To pay commissions to commissioners of revenue, examiners of records,
postage and express charges on land and property books and so forth,
one hundred: thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

To pay pensions, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, eight
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State hospitals for insane:

Fastern.—For support, one hundred thousand dollars.

Western.—For support, one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.

Southwestern.—For support, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Central.—For support, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars.

To western hospital for epileptic colony, twenty thousand dollars, not
to become: available until the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars made by the general assembly of nineteen hundred and six for this
purpose shall have been expended.

Colored asylum for deaf and blind.—For support, five thousand dollars.

For buildings, ten thousand dollars.

Prison association of Virginia, ten thousand dollars, as a supple-
mentary fund for teaching, clothing and general purposes of the school.

Officers and employees of State hospitals for the insane, to be paid out
of the amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as follows:
Superintendent of the western State hospital, two thousand two hu
dred and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of the central State hospital, three thousand five hu
dred dollars.

Superintendent of the eastern State hospital, two thousand dollars.
5 poipenimendant of the southwestern State hospital, two thousar

ollars. .

And where they occupy buildings on the ground of, or buildings b
longing to the respective institutions, they shall pay therefor such rent
as may be fixed by the board of the respective institutions.

First and second assistant physicians of each hospital shall receiy
each a salary not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annur

Third assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each a sala1
not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum.

Stewards of the western and central State hospital shall each recei
a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum.

Stewards of the eastern and southwestern State hospitals shall eac
receive a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum.

The clerk of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceeding seve
hundred and fifty dollars per annum. LEach clerk shall perform tl
duties of secretary to the board of the hospital of which he is a clerk.

The engineer of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceediz
seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers (except superintendents) of the hospitals shall recei'
in addition to the salaries specified above their board and lodging :
their respective hospitals, but shall not receive any additional perqu
sites or emoluments.

Tnstitutions of learning:

Medical college of Virginia, at Richmond, for support, five thousan
dollars.

State female normal school, for support, fifty thousand dollars.

State female normal school improvements, twenty-seven thousan
five hundred dollars. For support of State normal and industrial scho
for women, fifteen thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, for support, eighty thousand dollars, whic
shall include the ten thousand dollars provided for by an act approve
Januarv twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (chapter or
hundred and thirty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety
six), upon condition that the university of Virginia shall give instru
tions to properly prepare white students from Virginia without charg
for tuition or university fee in the academic department of more tha
ten dollars, which ten dollars shall cover all the items covered by tk
former university fee of forty dollars, but this shall not interfere with tk
requirements of the ten dollar contingent deposit.

For building, thirty-two thousand dollars.

Virginia military institute, for support, forty thousand dollars, whic
shall include the expenses of the board of visitors, except the adjutan
general and the superintendent of public instruction, whose expense
shall be paid as provided by law.

For buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Virginia school for the deaf and blind, for support, fifty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the further sum
of one thousand five hundred dollars for the treatment of such persons
as the superintendent may contract for at the Richmond eye infirmary.

Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute
at Blacksburg, Virginia, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars, which shall include seven hundred and fifty dollars paid under
chapter four hundred and twenty-five, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-
five and six; six thousand dollars paid under chapter seven hundred
and eighty-six, acts eighteen hundred ninety-nine and nineteen hundred
and the further sum of five thousand dollars for the special purpose of
conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations with to-
bacco and other crops grown in rotation or in connection with tobacco, for
equipment, four thousand dollars.

virginia normal and industrial institute, for support, twenty thousand
dollars.

William and Mary college, for support, forty thousand dollars, and
the further sum of ten thousand dollars for improvements.

Public schools.—Such sum as will be sufficient to pay the amount re-
quired by section fifteen hundred and seven, Code of Virginia, to be
applied to the support of the public free schools and the further sum
of four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, this latter sum to be
turned over to the State board of education, and by that board appor-
tioned as prescribed by the Constitution to the public free schools of
the several counties and cities of the Commonwealth, except, however,
fifteen thousand dollars thereof, which said board is authorized to ex-
pend in the maintenance of the summer normal institutes.

For high schools to be expended as per act creating public high
schools, one hundred thousand dollars, provided that so much of the
five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars herein provided for the
support of the public and high schools as may be necessary, not to
exceed twenty thousand dollars, shall be devoted to the establishment of
departments of agriculture, domestic economy and manual training in
at least one high school in each congressional district of the State, to be
conducted under such rules and regulations as the State board of edu-
cation and the president of the Virginia college of agriculture and
polytechnic institute may prescribe. ;

Confederate soldiers’ home, for annuity, thirty-five thousand dollars,
under act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the
further sum of twelve thousand dollars, making a total of forty-seven
thousand dollars.

To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under the acts ap-
proved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, January thirty-first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and January twenty - third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the amendments thereto, a sum
sufficient for that purpose is appropriated not exceeding eight hundred
and seventy-eight thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary.

‘Sinking fund.—For the sinking fund, one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars as provided by the act approved February, nineteen
hundred and eight.
Cattle quarantine, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.

Crop pest commission, all moneys received into the treasury from cer-
tificates of registration for selling nursery stock, as provided in section
twelve, chapter two hundred and seven, acts nineteen hundred and two
and nineteen hundred and three, and the sum of six thousand dollars,
which shall include and be in lieu of the appropriation made in said
act to be used exclusively for the purposes of the commissioners.

To carry into effect the law creating a new State board of health,
forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioners to promote uniformity of legislation, expenses of, one
hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Delinquent lands——To pay expenses of sales of any fees to clerks,
six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Erroneous assessments of taxes.—An amount sufficient to pay amounts
to be refunded under orders of courts.

Expenses of registration of marriages, four hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

Military fund, that proportion of the receipts into the State treasury
that is provided by section three hundred and seventy-six of the Code, as
amended by an act approved February twenty-six, nineteen hundred and
eight.

Military contingent fund.—To pay the military forces when aiding
the civil authorities as prescribed by section three hundred and five of
the Code of Virginia, a sum sufficient therefor.

Good roads.—State highway commission.—Salary of State highway
commissioner, three thousand dollars; salary of assistant highway com-
missioner, two thousand dollars; salary of clerk of highway commisisoner,
one thousand two hundred dollars ; for contingent and all other expenses,
eight thousand six hundred dollars.

For State money aid for the improvement of public roads, two hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars, of which two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, shall be available during the fiscal year beginning
March first, nineteen hundred and eight, for employing necessary as-
sistants and defraying their expenses for viewing locations and making
plans and specifications for carrying into effect the act of general as-
sembly approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eight,
entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict
labor for improvement of public roads.

For convict road force under act approved March sixth, nineteen hun-
dred and six, known as Lassiter-Withers act, sixty-five thousand dollars.

To pay for lithographing stamps and seals to be used by notaries and
clerks of courts, seventy-five dollars.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into the treasury
and the surplus of all other appropriations made previous to this date
unexpended within the two fiscal years hereinbefore provided for, and
all other moneys not otherwise appropriated by law, shall constitute a
general fund to defray all such expenses authorized by law as are not
herein particularly provided for.
3. The annuities to the public institutions of the State and to the
State hospitals for the insane shall be paid in monthly instalments.

4, It shall not be lawful for the auditor of public accounts to pay
the State hospitals or any other institutions, any money except as is
provided for in this act, or in pursuance of some act making a special
appropriation therefor. And the proper officer of each public institution
of the State, for which appropriation is hereby made, shall in his annual
report give an itemized account of the expenditures of such appropriation
for such institution; and every officer of this State for whose department
appropriations are hereby made shall make annually a report covering
an itemized account of the expenditures of such appropriation and of
all other sums received by such institutions, department of officers for
any source, and such reports and accounts shall embrace the expenditure
of all funds appropriated, including the interest on bonds held by such
institutions and hereinbefore directed to be paid to them; which reports
shall be forwarded to the general assembly and laid before both houses
thereof on the first day of each session thereof.

5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.